In a highly unusual case of a defendant being found innocent in a Japanese court, a man charged with groping a girl has been cleared after a judge decided that he could not have dashed 6m and groped her all in the 1 second period he was out of view of a security camera – although the fact he was jailed for 6 months, as long as the sentence sought by prosecutors, rather renders the verdict moot.

The case began with a 40-year-old man being accused of groping a 17-year-old girl on a bicycle one morning in front of a Miyazaki prefecture convenience store.

The alleged crime took place on the 14th of September, but it was not until the 3rd of October that police moved to charge and arrest the man for violating the prefecture’s anti-groping ordinances.

He denied the charges, and prosecutors then sought a massive 6 month prison sentence for an offence which usually attracts suspended sentences and fines even for repeat offenders.

The case went to trial, and aside from the girl’s testimony the only evidence involved was security camera footage from the convenience store. This showed the man walking in front of the store and then apparently turning in the same direction as the girl, who disappeared from the screen followed by the man.

In total he was off camera for less than a second, but the girl was some 6m ahead of him when he disappeared.

Amazingly, in spite of this rock solid evidence the judge ruled that as “it was impossible for him to have covered 6m in under a second, and the woman’s testimony is at odds with the evidence” he could not be guilty. He was ruled innocent.

Unfortunately, the man’s life had already been destroyed by this point, said his defence: “As he has been held in prison for 6 months, he has since lost his job – a case like this should never have been brought so lightly.”

The prosecutors refused to comment as they say they are considering whether to appeal the verdict and try for a 1-second dash-grope conviction again.

There is considerable outrage about the case, both for the length of time he was held on such a relatively minor charge and the flimsy evidence:

“And what happens to the girl who made the false accusation? Won’t she be punished?”

“No. She’s not committed any crime…”

“6m in 1 second might be possible for an athlete?”

“He teleported over there and groped her. Happens all the time.”

“A 1 second grope is a bit hard to believe in any case.”

“I’m curious about why he turned and walked back…”

“Who knows? To go back to his car or something?”

“Sounds like the prosecutor had it in for him. Japanese prosecutors are just nuts.”

“He was arrested and prosecuted a month after the supposed groping, not at the scene when it happened. However you look at it, this case is some bullshit made up by a cop.”

“And solely because he appeared on a convenience store security camera.”

“Lucky for him the camera was there, or was it?”

“6 months of detention? I bet a lot of innocent people plead guilty rather than be held for longer than the sentence they’d get for the plea whilst the police try to bully a confession out of them.”

“They normally get off with a fine if they admit it. Even if you win the court case, in a case like this they will make sure you lose the battle.”

“It hardly matters. If it gets out that you’ve been convicted, even if only fined, you’ll be sacked immediately. Even if you confess immediately, they may hold you whilst trying to pin more charges on you, and you won’t be able to explain your absence from work without a doctor’s note. Of course, none of this applies to police, teachers and other civil servants.”

“They are looking for excuses to sack you. In my company, somebody was sacked for a speeding offence.”

“I thought they can only hold you for 20 days?”

“The courts can authorise as many extensions to that detention as they want, and do so almosy 100% of the time they are asked.”

“I don’t get how he got locked away for so long. The standard for these cases always seemed to be charge and release on the same day, followed by a household search. Was she the daughter of some bigwig?”

“What kind of dictatorship do we live in?”

“Half a year of jail on no evidence, and he lost his job!? Hold this bitch to account!”

“It hardly matters that the court cleared him. Social punishments have already been exacted.”

“This poor guy had his whole life ruined because of this. His career will never recover and he has been branded a criminal… he should sue for tens of millions in damages and libel and feed his family with that for the rest of his unemployed life!”

“He’d never win. There was a similar case recently where a falsely accused innocent man sued the state for $130,000 and they threw it out by just saying that the police had no choice but to arrest based on the accusation.”

“Can he get his job back?”

“Losing your job at 40 is basically a death sentence here. He’ll never work again.”

“The problem is with these cops and prosecutors desperate to get a high ratio of convictions – if anyone maintains they are innocent after being arrested they start doing this kind of thing.”

“These false charges are bound to happen where you have a system where people are arrested automatically if accused of something by a woman. There needs to be some financial punishment for making such false charges or people will think nothing of making such accusations.”

“What are the police doing? Groping is utterly shameful, but the police do not even acknowledge the possibility women lie or are mistaken about these things.”

“Our police and prosecutors are as bad as the criminals…”

“Japanese police are just totally untrustworthy.”

“He would have gotten off more lightly by just beating her senseless.”

“You think false chikan accusations are bad! Think of what happens to the men subject to all those fake rape accusations!”

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Not sure if he can sue the girl, or the nation?(state?) but I would look into that after losing my job, and being kept in jail for 6 months on nothing but being called a groper WITH no evidence at that point.

The trick is to use your shadow clone jutsu. If you grope 60 women as separate clones and then collapse back into one person, you’ll experience ONE WHOLE MINUTE of chikan pleasure; I mean if you have the chakr to do so.

I’m no misogynist, but I am getting tired of the ‘always believe the woman’ bullshit.

Women, girls, boys, men… they WILL lie about sexual assault to get revenge on someone. Especially if they make it out so “Oh, he used a condom and took it with him!” like someone who accused one of my college buddies did.

Thankfully, he had VIDEO evidence (store surveillance) that he wasn’t anywhere near the bitch in question when she was supposedly ‘assaulted’ AND her sister came forward saying that she had talked with her about making a false allegation because she was pissed at my buddy for not wanting to marry her.

The most sickening thing about it, is that some governments support this by forcing police to get a high ratio of arrestation, then they can brag about their progress in terms of “security” and get reelected.
People are so obsessed with statistics that they forget that cops aren’t made to arrest people, but to ensure to protect them.

Although, this would become more valid if the speed she was moving at herself became known. Because clearing a lousy 6 meters in a second is easy if the person is standing still. I should know. I do it on a daily basis.

People simply need to realize some can run faster then others. It seems to be generally accepted that human beings all run at the exact same speed.. When this is not the case. A 2 ft person cannot run as fast as a 6 ft person.

You’re missing the problem. What is impossible isn’t clearing 6m in one second, but running 6m, groping a girl, then running 6m back into the camera, all in only 1 second. You can’t do this unless you are Homura, Dio Brando or the motherfucking Izayoi Sakuya.

Probably the Japanese government wants to start billing with chains like the U.S. government …
Or as in my country Brazil, where the government cost of an inmate equivalent income of a family and end the prisoners are crammed into a cell where revesa to sleep and eat rotten food ..

In the USA the police often add “terroristic-threats” to the often lengthy list of charges.
Unfortunately, no one really knows what it really means, and the judge is free to interpret it any way he wants. (usually an additional one or two years)

He should sue the state. He has got nothing to lose, after all. But perhaps it’s useless in a country like Japan. Based on the articles here, the justice system of Japan seems to resemble more that of a third world country than that of an old industrialized one.

I don’t know how much of your post is sarcasm but the police really are scum. They certainly have a lot of time fining/arresting harmless people but no time to catch real criminals. Go after the drug dealers instead of the harmless high as hell junkie… oh but those drug dealers might have weapons!

[quote]I don’t know how much of your post is sarcasm but the police really are scum. They certainly have a lot of time fining/arresting harmless people but no time to catch real criminals. Go after the drug dealers instead of the harmless high as hell junkie… oh but those drug dealers might have weapons![/quote]
Let me guess… you’ve been caught buying marijuana, right?

They always tell women to walk in pairs for protection so they don’t get raped or molested. Maybe guys should do the same thing so they don’t get falsely accused. At least you’ll have a corroborating witness.

He might as well find her and rape the shit out of her until she’s dead and go back to prison at least he’ll be fed and clothed.
He’ll probably wind up living in a cardboard box.
It’s Japan and I’m sure all his former friends, neighbors and family will shun him as a social pariah.
He’ll never get another decent job, if he finds work at all. At least in America he might be able to sue but probably not in Japan.

Another innocent falling victim to raving Femnazi rhetoric and the pussy politicians that pander to them.

Usually don’t agree with something like that, but in this case? Hell yes. He should sue the state to have his record expunged AND to get some justification for the 6 months he spent in prison.

Frankly, if I had been a police officer and heard something like that? I would have told the bitch “I don’t believe you and I’m going to put it in my report that I don’t believe you!” to cover my own ass and explain in the report exact why I didn’t believe her.

His life is over, he will never get a good job now, she deserves at least that much punishment. How about this instead:
– Force colleges to deny her admission for life, ruining her chances at a good job.
– Put her on a list of people who commit fraud so the police never take her seriously again and they have to have ANY crime against her on tape.
– Force her to work and use the money to pay him a year’s salary as soon as she is old enough to get a job.

146, he has no legal recourse what so ever. Of course someone like her deserves some kind of punishment, she didn’t even get a slap on the wrist. She should go to juvie for fraud, I am sure she would get several gropings there.

@1:46 Still, I can’t help but think that with her not being punished at all for practically destroying the guy’s life (because he’d lost the job, and getting a new one will be difficult for him because of the fact that he was tried, even if he wasn’t convicted in the end) for no apparent reason, I can see why they want her to get hurt. There’s a big difference between saying lies that don’t hurt anyone and saying lies that ruin someone’s life, and in the second case there should be consequences; women’s crusade against men in Japan is getting to levels so ridiculous that it’s hard not to sympathise with Japanese men.

If anything, if karma was real, then she deserves to get groped and not be able to do anything about that for destroying his life with her lies about him groping her. But since justice is blind and karma almost impotent, the only thing there is left for us is wishing her harm.

@0:27 If all women were like the one who ruined that guy’s life, I wouldn’t want to get into a 500 feet radius of any of them, regardless of your stupid comments. Fortunately, some of them are better than that.

14:22, agree totally. Lawsuits are UNDER-rated by a lot of people, it’s the only way in our society short of taking the law into your own hands (which is frowned upon) that you can get some just compensation for loss.

Corporations especially are not going to do the right thing without a threat of litigation.

“This poor guy had his whole life ruined because of this. His career will never recover and he has been branded a criminal… he should sue for tens of millions in damages and libel and feed his family with that for the rest of his unemployed life!”

“He’d never win. There was a similar case recently where a falsely accused innocent man sued the state for $130,000 and they threw it out by just saying that the police had no choice but to arrest based on the accusation.”

These cases are raised only for reason that prosecutors and police needs to show some results to motivate their numbers and earnings.
And they are bribed by real criminals, who are doing much bigger crimes, to keep officials in hunting innocent people to court, despite even themselves knowing that accusations to get innocent people jailed are false.

Artifact is playing funny about mainly non-important issues in China, forgetting how dictatorships are organized. Japan is transforming to bigot dictatorship. This development is similar with 1926-1936, when military and conservatives destroyed Japan`s budding democracy.
USA is such secretly (and openly) hardening dictatorship too, besides some other western countries.

Japan is rapidly falling to bottom, with corrupt & rotten police and law forcing system, but blaming anime, manga etc. and otaku being the main problem in Japanese society.

Must admit Sankaku is doing a good thing in reporting of these cases, showing how rotten police and justice system is and it is getting worse.

It’s the same everywhere. Where I live, even if you’re innocent you still have to pay the court thousands of euros in processing fees, and you have to pay your lawyer. (No lawyer guarantees an unjust conviction in all but the most trivial of cases.) Granted, you get a compensation for unnecessary jail time, but it’s only about half minimum wage and if you got fired because of it, the government won’t force your employer to re-employ you or give you a new job. Justice exists only for the rich.

Hahaha funny.
The only way he could have covered that distance in one second is if he fell from 6 meters well even then I think it would take 1.2 seconds.
The other issue if he did reach that kid of acceleration he would not be able to stop to grope he unless you want to count running her over as groping.

It looks like Dio Brando was having one of his off days and suffered for it…

*shakes helmet*

But in all seriousness, the injustice and brutality of this one-sided fiasco shows one of the ugliest faces of humanity that no one stands up too…And even if they did, those in power (the prosecution) can manipulate ‘justice’ to their advantage despite the evidence…

And people the world over wonder why we lose more and more faith on authority and how they handle things…

You’re absolutely right. A lot of people forget that if your accused of something like this it’s going to cost you thousands if not ten of thousands of dollars in legal fees to clear yourself. If you don’t have the money you have to rely on the Public Defenders Office and then God help you!
You had also better hope it’s not a slow night for news because your case is almost guaranteed to be on the 6 o’clock news. We’ve seen time and time again how the media jackals can make something out of nothing to whip up public opinion.
If you are not rich or a celebrity you’re pretty much screwed.

However, If OJ was a non celebrity NONE of that would have even come into play. He would never have been able to afford the legal defense team he assembled along with private investigators and the rest. He would be doing life in San Quentin and largely forgotten.
Justice is for the rich and those
of influence. Period!
Guys like the alleged groper have their lives destroyed by nothing more than a girls accusation (Since there is no recording of the supposed assault) which is why after 6 months the judge let him go. However the irreparable damage is already done. I’m quite sure if it had been some idol or politician the result would be very different.

IF THE GLOVE DOESN’T FIT, YOU HAVE TO ACQUIT! That is the bottom line there. I’ve seen the studies done where they PROVED that the glove could not have shrunk so much that O.J. couldn’t put it on.

It’s just impossible. Now, could he have hired someone to kill his wife and her boyfriend? Yeah and if they were smart, they would have focused on that from the start or at least entertained that notion.

I don’t know, OJ got away with double murder until he screwed himself in a botched robbery.
Michael Jackson was acquitted of child molestation.
Wealth and celebrity at least afford you the best money can buy. Lawyers, judges, juries , publicity etc. Makes a big difference and is the primary reason the rich walk while the poor rot.

Anon 05:24 thought he was being clever by bringing up buttrape, but what he didn’t realize was that he just exposed himself as an american who speaks about buttrape from experience, because prison rape doesn’t exist in the rest of the developed world.

It’s stupid overexaggerated myth to scare people from committing crimes. Sure there’s probably some rape going on but I doubt everyone going to prison is going to be ass raped. If that’s the case, who’s the one raping?

*feed the troll machine* sssssssuuuuurrrrrreeeeeeeeeeee cause the girl did not like ruin has life and it was definatly right to leave he off the hook, cause their is no justice for destroying another human being/sarcasm

*feeds the troll so he can post* They are just suggesting it because her false accusation that the man groped her, put the man’s life in turmoil and stuck him with 6 months of jail time. Think of all the anime he missed…!